You Again fizzles into mediocrity despite a slew of amusing cameos.
Game but clueless, You Again shoots for a girl-powered bad-taste comedy but lands closer to daytime soap opera with added pratfalls. Fitfully amusing, appealingly cast, utterly inconsequential.
By-the-numbers comedy with only the occasional giggle to recommend it.
DON'T think of a frenetic timewaster like You Again as a movie - rather, think of it as a sack of unfunny slapstick set-ups.
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver bring a touch of class to an otherwise dire revenge comedy.
A clever, perhaps even brilliant idea for a black comedy has here been slathered and stifled in a thick treacly layer of Disney-sentimental gloop.
A fluffy, harmless comedy.
In all other respects You Again is a lost cause.
Never again.
It's basically a third-rate Mean Girls blended into a wedding-sabotage comedy that has almost no laughs.
Appropriately titled, You Again won’t win any prizes for originality but it does deliver just enough girly fun.
Low-rent, barrel-scraping and life-sapping, You Again should be avoided in the same way one avoids a minibreak to Chernobyl. Write a letter, picket your cinema, start a Facebook group. Urge your fellow citizens to save 105 minutes of their lives.
Anybody expecting another Freaky Friday or Mean Girls will be sorely disappointed by the lack of fizz or bite.
There is an amusing idea buried here, but the script is laboured and the direction heavy-handed.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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